(November 6, 2016 at 8:51 pm)FallentoReason Wrote:(November 6, 2016 at 8:47 pm)bennyboy Wrote: If 2 and 2 add to 5, then it's not really 2, and it's not really 5. It's glooble and glorp.
No, what it is, is a universe like nothing you can imagine. Forget 3-d space, that's for beginner universes. Gravity? Don't need it. This is what you're supposed to get out of "2 + 2 = 5", that this universe is weird. It doesn't run on the same stuff as ours. And that is impossible to comprehend with our conditioned minds, so the best I could do was to give an impossible sum and hypothesize it to be true.
I'm perfectly willing to imagine a possible universe which operates on rules different than ours. I mean, even in our own universe, we have light relativity, photon duality, quantum erasers and so on, which do not work by the logical rules we've grown up taking as rock solid.
But 2+2=5 fails to identity. If something is really 2, and something is really 5, and "+" means what plus means, then it must work the same across all dimensions. Otherwise, it's glooble and glorp.
